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Shawn Fain and Abdul El-Sayed: workers and the 2026 midterms

An hour-long UAW video conversation on healthcare, retirement, trade and technology ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterms. Shawn Fain leads the United Auto Workers; Abdul El-Sayed is a physician and U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan.

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12 Oct 2026
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UAW President Shawn Fain Wins Reelection Victory

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, winning 68 percent of the vote in member balloting for the union’s top officers. The election was a referendum on the new fighting direction Fain has taken the union by leading 2023’s Stand-Up Strike against the Big 3 automa…

Author: Luis Feliz Leon, Jane Slaughter Source: labornotes.org
Jane Slaughter Luis Feliz Leon United States Auto industry
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22 Sep 2026
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AutoZone Workers Are Trying to Form the Company’s First-Ever Union

When workers file for a union election, it’s like a Bat-Signal goes off: a column of light cuts through the night sky, summoning not Bruce Wayne but a swarm of anti-union managers and consultants who reap tens of thousands of dollars from sowing fear and doubt. A new calculator from workers’ right…

Author: Luis Feliz Leon Source: labornotes.org
Luis Feliz Leon United States UAW Union busting and repression
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18 Sep 2026
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Fourteen Hundred Solar Manufacturing Workers Join the Steelworkers

Workers at a Corning solar manufacturing plant in Michigan voted September 1 to join the Steelworkers (USW). The vote was a close 560-512, following an intense anti-union campaign by the company. Nakisha West, a wirecutter, voted yes for “fairness and accountability.” She and her co-workers use s…

Author: Lee Abbott Source: labornotes.org
Lee Abbott United States Energy UAW
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20 Sep 2026
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The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine

The Party of Baristas Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay. Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class by Noam Scheiber Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026, 384 pp. It’s been a dr…

Author: Gabriel Winant Source: dissentmagazine.org
Gabriel Winant United States UAW Starbucks Workers United
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09 Sep 2026
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Persecuted by Trump, Will Unions Build Towards May 2028?

Three years ago the United Auto Workers, glowing with confidence after a successful strike at the Big 3 and pledging ambitious new organizing drives, put out a call for a national strike on May 1, 2028. UAW President Shawn Fain called for unions to align their contracts with the Big 3 to build lev…

Author: Luis Feliz Leon Source: labornotes.org
Luis Feliz Leon United States Auto industry UAW
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09 Sep 2026
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The UAW Wave Has Hit Our Shores

The union’s endorsements of insurgent candidates led to big wins this summer. It’s all part of a strategy to remake American politics for the working class. During Claire Valdez’s campaign this year to represent New York’s District 7 in Congress, a slogan organically emerged: “Claire was there.” R…

Author: Ella Fanger Source: thenation.com
Ella Fanger United States Auto industry Teamsters
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04 Sep 2026
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Tesla and the Labor Union Battles: The UAW Organizing Drive, Nordic Strike Actions, and IG Metall Clashes

An investigative exposé of Tesla's global labor wars: Shawn Fain's UAW organizing drive in Fremont, IF Metall's historic Nordic blockade, IG Metall battles at Giga Berlin, and the future of factory work. FREMONT, California , At the shift-change gate along South Grimmer Boulevard outside Tesla's h…

Author: Streamline Feed Official Source: streamlinefeed.co.ke
Germany United States Sweden Auto industry
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26 Aug 2026
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UAW Members Voting for International Officers

United Auto Workers members are voting by mail ballot for their top officers, for the second time in the union’s 91 years. Ballots went out August 21 and are due back by October 5. The contest will decide whether President Shawn Fain, who became famous for leading 2023’s Stand-Up Strike against th…

Author: Luis Feliz Leon, Jane Slaughter Source: labornotes.org
Jane Slaughter Luis Feliz Leon United States Auto industry
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